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For most people. Government workers and their families practically have indefinite Schengen visas.

The west was still getting a good deal out of China 15 years ago, so they were walking the same tightrope as with the dictatorships they backed: circulating enough bad facts about them, true or false, without riling the people up too much, lest they demand action be taken against them.

What’s amazing about the current coverage is how they’ve mastered the big lie. Bourgeois information control is so great that people don’t think twice about the most ludicrous claims about China, Russia etc unless they’ve already got gripes about the capitalist system they live under.

https://gisgeography.com/us-temperature-map/

The maps don’t bear out a lot of places with that sort of a temperature variety. Even they it did, -10⁰C and 40⁰C are just outside the norm for many steppe climates (an example off the top of my head), and there are whole cities of concrete in steppe climate regions.

Wood lasting centuries is even less credible, since wood can’t last decades. Buildings can last in a ship of theseus sense, but the wood itself breaks down for all manner of reasons.

The microraptor weighed around a kg, so I’d swat it in my panicked flailing and feel like shit afterwards.

It’s way funnier than that. There was a photo op in December 2021, the photos of which were re-used after the SMO started, often with the implication that they were recent.

https://youtu.be/u4RkkjiYu0k?si=-FyxEn_eQmRcLXfi

Just posting what I found, didn’t watch the video.

My favourite part of the holding your baby fee story is that whenever the photo makes the rounds on reddit or wherever, people try to explain the situation, i.e. relay the explanation the PR department of the hospital issued. The “explanation” is that the regular procedure is to take the baby away immediately for medical reasons I don’t remember. Either the hospital is lying and this was a bullshit charge people with a newborn couldn’t object to, or they really have an inhuman procedure that charges a new mother for one of the most human things she can do. I don’t even know which would be worse.

This is under the telegraph video on YT. The only value this person can provide humanity is by facing the wall.

It’s for us to read and these illiterate fucks to never find out about. Merkel and any number of people may admit it was just a stall, what liberals can’t read can’t affect them, apparently.

If my neighbours were surrounding me, digging up trenches and setting up gun nests, I’d want them to stop expanding too.

If NATO isn’t an offensive alliance meant to contain Russia, why did they refuse Russia’s entry in early 2000s, when there was no anti-west posture?

No obvious fact I’m afraid. It’s only meagre analysis. If some disaster befell random oblasts scattered across the Union it may be true that a decentralised system could deal with it better. I wouldn;t make that argument but I’m willing to hear one out. Famine-causing disasters on the other hand, namely floods and drought, occur in lumps, in this case a large swathe from Belarus to Kazakhstan.

Reading the correspondences in this matter, there seems to be nothing but confusion. Collective farms asking for seed, CPU members vaguely hinting at low sowing without ever explicitly saying there’s a famine to be alleviated and leadership of the Ukrainian SSR bemoaning the grain procurement demands of the CC of CPSU while working to over-export as late as December 1932. Kaganovich was sent to the Ukraine to sort out what was going on and it took him months to realise they were facing a famine and officials in Belarus were questioning the state of affairs since historically Ukraine had fed Belarus and not the other way around. I don’t really see any sort of decentralised system, be it at a soviet or oblast level, figuring out the situation to a significant degree, finding who might spare the grain and establishing the connection to get that grain over many hundreds of kilometres. I’ll hear out if you’ve got any ideas, but I just don’t find it realistic.

It’s less that and more “ohh, it’s fine when they say it, but when I say it, it’s racist” which isn’t reasonable in the first place for the n-word, but doubly so in this case since we know there’s a lot of racism going around in the HK independence “movement.”

a more sort of decentralized or horizontal system should be able to better distribute food when a socialist project is still establishing itself and reorganizing or rebuilding its agriculture, right?

That’s definitely not a takeaway from the famine of '32-'33. It took months for a powerful central government to sort through the conflicting reports from local officials, get an accurate picture and mount an alleviation. I don’t think it’s possible that decentralised system would’ve grasped the extent or even the fact of a famine in a more timely manner.

A few from India, Vietnam and Russia for good measure.

You can just skip all this thinking if you remind yourself how easy it is to get a doctor’s note, and infer how easily powerful fuckfaces ger more important documents.

Beyond that… Liberals misunderstand how media controls thought. They think in 1D terms, media that lies and media that tells the truth, when how often a thing is mentioned or in what context are far more important than the fact of it being said. I guarantee this, if all news media mentioned some crime or coincidence in HW’s past after every fifth time his name was mentioned, starting on his election day, he’d be fucking impaled on the lawn of the white house before the first state of the union. Yet he was allowed to die a sweet old man, fondly remembered by man. As will his son, the painter.

Who knew Jonathan Pryce was the leader of Wagner PMC?

Wait, does this mean Pope John Pryce 1 died and they’re hiding that, or that he only pretended to die?

Sissypea is forcing the poor Yuggers to practice their own culture and religion. It’s even teaching them their language alongside mandarin, the horror!

I feel mild nostalgia for a lot of games, but I’ve got a specific place for Starcraft.

See, I must’ve watched my brother play Brood War quite a lot, because I had 6 images imprinted in my mind: the in-game sprites and portraits of Zealots, Dragoons, and Dark Templar. I didn’t really have the wherewithal to process that these imahes were from a game. It was probably a few years later, when I came across my brother playing it again. I spent an absurd amount of time on that game and the sequel.

Anyway. Hate the game now. I haven’t got the energy to spend hours every day honing my reflexes for that ludicrous sack of shit engine. I only ever watch compilations of Artosis getting furious these days.

You’ll have to forgive the copy-paste reply, I answered about the same question on r*ddit. Even if you aren’t read-up on DOR Korea enough to take it at face value that they’re socialists, there are key differences.

We know for a fact that the Kim family aren’t enriching themselves or exploiting their country’s resources like the western backed dictators. If they were living with all the luxuries of the modern day bourgeoise or cheaply selling ores or whatever resources for cheap, that’d be quite difficult to hide. This is also why the only argument westerners have to prove their luxury is how fat they are in a country with such low obesity rates, obviously not a serious argument that merits a response. I don’t know about Kim Il-Sung or Kim Jong-Il’s positions, but Kim Jong-Un really isn’t in a position of supreme authority. In fact, he has less direct control over policy than most western leaders.

On the other hand, Omar Bongo (the father) was literally installed by de Gaulle. He had french backing from day 1, he and his family lived in all the bourgeois luxuries and exploited the natural resources of the country to the benefit of France just like the rest of the neo-colonies in west Africa.

Best way to learn about Korea would be to read up on the war and the writings of Kim Il-Sung. If you need convincing more than clarity, you can read Che and Fidel had to say about the DPRK.